[Footnote 4: '—nothing else is left me.' This seems to me one of the finest touches in the revelation of Hamlet.]
[Footnote 5: 1st Q. 'wherling'.]
[Footnote 6: I take the change from the Quarto here to be no blunder.]
[Footnote 7: Point thus: 'too!—Touching.']
[Footnote 8: The struggle to command himself is plain throughout.]
[Footnote 9: He could not endure the thought of the resulting gossip;—which besides would interfere with, possibly frustrate, the carrying out of his part.]
[Footnote 10: This is not a refusal to swear; it is the oath itself: 'In faith I will not!']
[Footnote 11: He would have them swear on the cross-hilt of his sword.]
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Marcell. We haue sworne my Lord already.[1]